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Newcomb's Measurements of the Passage Time of Light
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<h3>Description</h3>

<p>A numeric vector giving the &lsquo;Third Series&rsquo; of measurements of the
passage time of light recorded by Newcomb in 1882.  The given values
divided by 1000 plus 24 give the time in millionths of a second for
light to traverse a known distance. The &lsquo;true&rsquo; value is now
considered to be 33.02.
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<h3>Usage</h3>

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<h3>Source</h3>

<p>S. M. Stigler (1973)
Simon Newcomb, Percy Daniell, and the history of robust estimation
1885&ndash;1920.
<em>Journal of the American Statistical Association</em> <b>68</b>, 872&ndash;879.
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<p>R. G. Staudte and S. J. Sheather (1990)
<em>Robust Estimation and Testing.</em> Wiley.
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